Alan Vega & Christophe

 I have two special funny souvenirs, one with Alan Vega, the other with Christophe.

Alan Vega was in Berlin when my friend Alex Chilton opened Alans $how in Berlin at "Quartier Latin".

Backstage @ Quartier Latin pic by Alex Chilton

They kind of knew each other but it was before their comon project Cubist Blues.

Nevertheless Alex introduced me to Alan: This my friend Coco from France.. Alan said: ah.; tu es français with a perfect accentn so i went on speaking french with him, but then he came: "Moi, non" (I don't)

Anyway Alans show that night in Berlin was just incredible !

He was backed by a redhair lady on some sequencer machine and a guy lookinkg like something between a redneck and a porn producer on a "headless guitar"

Alan came on stage and asked for more monitor, less, more...The whole thing lasted for about 20 ultra dramatic minutes after Alan eventually smashed the mic and left stage. That was it !

To my surprise the audiance didn't Riot or something..It was just a perfect Rock'N'Roll $how !

Christophe now called me in Paris while I stayed a little while at my mums place in Paris in the middle night, 3:00 am or something...

he was a notorious nightowl. The story was that he wante'd my band Lolitas to back him on some TV $how for his record hit "Aline" that we had Covered on our record "Fusée d'amour" produced by Alex Chilton.

It eventually didn't happen because the producer on TV didn't agree on that.

Nevertheless a couple of years later Alan worked with Alex and Christophe...